Pocket game-board



J. H. RAMSEY.

POCKET GAME BOARD. APPLICATIO N FILED MAY 10, 19.

1,343,984. Patented June 22, 1920;

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JOSEPH H. RAMSEY, 0F ALBANY, NEW YORK.

POCKET GAME-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J 11119 22, 1920,

Application filed May 10, 1917. -Scria1 No. 167,636. 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH H. RAMSEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Game- Boards, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to game boards, and its object is to provide animproved device for games played with movable pieces, the device beingprovided with suitable receptacles in which the piecesare stored whennot in use. A further object is to provide a sheet metal gameboard whichcan be folded into compact form for carrying in the pocket. To these andother ends the invention consists in the novel features hereinafterdescribed.

One form of the invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a perspective view of the gameboard folded for thepocket.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the game board opened for use, a portion of thelid of one of the storage receptacles or compartments being brokenaway.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 2.

The device shown comprises two sheet metal halves in the form of flat,shallow receptacles 10, hinged along one edge and of rectangular form,approximately twice .as long as wide, so that when they are opened outinto the same plane they will form a complete square, as in Fig. 2.

On the pintle 11, which constitutes the pivot of the hinge, are pivotedtwo sheet metal lids, 12, for the two receptacles. The upper surface ofthe lids is painted, printed or otherwise figured to form a game board,as for example a checkerboard as shown in Fig. 2, and the lids areformed with shallow depressions, as 13, to receive the pieces lel, whichin the present instance are in the form of hollow disks made of sheetmetal, with depressed tops and with their bottoms shaped to fit into thedepressions 13.

When the game board is not in use the I pieces are. stored in thereceptacles in the two halves orleaves of the device and the latter arefolded or closed down upon each other as in Fig. 1. To hold the twoparts together in closed position against acci-' dental opening the freeedge of each is provided with a spring finger, as 15, to snap over theedge of the other leaf, asin Fig. 1. The lugs are bent slightly inward,to form inwardlydisposed ribs 16, and the adjacent edges of the lids 12are provided with spring lugs 1'7, which snap under the ribs 16 to holdthe lids closed upon the storage receptacles, as clearly shown in rig.3. Finger recesses 18 are cut in the edges of thelids, into which thefinger nail may be inserted to raise the lids for access to the pieces,14, below.

In the device illustrated only the alternate squares of the playingsurface are provided with depressions for the game of draughts orcheckers. For playing chess all the squares can be provided withdepressions and the pieces can be marked on top with conventionalrepresentations of chessmen.

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to theconstruction herein specifically illustrated and described, but can beembodied in other forms without departure from its spirit as defined bythe appended claim.

I claim:

A pocket gameboard consisting of a pair of halves composedof sheet metalshaped to form shallow receptacles and hinged to fold together face toface, releasable means to hold the halves in closed position, sheetmetal lids hinged to the halves and to each other on the same pintle asthe halves, to form closures for the receptacles and having their uppersurfaces marked to serve as a playing surfacewhen the two halves areopened out and having recesses or depres-l sions to receive theplayingpieces, and releasable means to hold the lids'in closed po-

